Rod Blagojevich

A rap group going by the name Blago Del Fuego has created a rap song based on the Rod Blagojevich Senate Seat controversy. The songs is based on Shawty Low’s “Dey Know” song and features the same beat. The rappers take the song from Blagojevich’s perspective and dis both Lil Wayne and Kanye West. Watch […]

From Terence Samuel at TheRoot.com: Blagojevich may be the one indicted, but Jesse Jackson Jr. has a real trial ahead of him.

For the record, Jesse Jackson, Jr. did not offer a million dollars for Obama’s Senate seat. If the Blagojevich phone calls are indicative of Jackson’s position, he (or an emissary) offered to help raise a million dollars for Blagojevich’s campaign. How is this worse than any of the rich donors who give and raise money […]

Four days before the election, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich claimed someone came to him with a deal about filling Barack Obama’s soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat.

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Jesse Jackson Jr., currently implicated in the Blagojevich senate scandal, for trying to bribe the Illinoia Governor had a press conference.

From Daniel Engber at Slate.com: <em>On Tuesday, Gov. Rod Blagojevich of </em><em>Illinois</em><em> was <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/illinois.governor" target="_blank">taken into federal custody on corruption charges</a>, one of which entails attempting to sell President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. In 2006, Daniel Engber explained why politicians in the </em><em>Land</em><em> of </em><em>Lincoln</em><em> are so corrupt. The article is after the jump. </em> <em></em>

In a recent press conference after his meeting with former VP, Al Gore, Barack Obama talked about climate change and the controversy over Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich’s alleged auctioning off of Obama’s senate seat. Watch Obama Discuss Blagojevich After The Jump

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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama’s election as president.